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Mileage vs Chainage - What's the difference?

mileage | chainage |

As nouns the difference between mileage and chainage

is that mileage is the total distance, in miles, travelled while chainage is an imaginary line used to measure distance, often corresponding to the centre of a straight road.

mileage

English

(wikipedia mileage)

Alternative forms

* milage

Noun

  • the total distance, in miles, travelled
  • the number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel
  • mileage allowance, an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile
  • (informal) the amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future
    • This old PC has still got plenty of mileage in it.
    There's quite a lot of mileage in language, speech and computing, particularly in research.
  • (informal) something worth taking into consideration
    • There's some mileage in your argument.

    See also

    * kilometrage * millage * your mileage may vary

    chainage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia chainage)
  • (surveying) An imaginary line used to measure distance, often corresponding to the centre of a straight road.
  • (surveying) A distance measured along such a line.